(openPR) - HMS Software has announced that it has renewed its participation in the Primavera Technology Partner program. This program includes strategic and technical alliance partners who have products and services which extend the Primavera enterprise project management and portfolio management tools. This will be HMS Software's 11th consecutive year as a Primavera Alliance partner.

“HMS and Primavera have been technology partners since 1997 and our relationship with the company stretches back to the early 80’s,” said Chris Vandersluis, President of HMS Software. “Our primary intention in this relationship is to extend the capabilities of Primavera project management software with our TimeControl enterprise timesheet system.”

HMS Software became a Primavera Technology partner based on the integration of its TimeControl timesheet software which has pre-configured links to move data to and from Primavera’s project management products. For Primavera clients who require more financially oriented timesheets or timesheets which are well suited for both payroll and project updating purposes, the TimeControl timesheet can be deployed in an enterprise-wide environment.

The bi-directional link between TimeControl and Primavera allows for project, task and resource information to be moved from Primavera and actual hours, costs and task progress to move from TimeControl back to Primavera.

TimeControl’s additional functionality makes the product an attractive add-on when an organization wishes to implement Primavera and to use the timesheet data to update both Primavera and financial systems such as Payroll, Billing, Human Resources or Job Costing. TimeControl is able to link to virtually any financial system including SAP, Oracle, Timberline and Microsoft’s Dynamics group of finance packages including Great Plains and Solomon.

“We've maintained a link with the Primavera project management products since 1997,” explained Stephen Eyton-Jones, HMS Software's Director of Technical Services. “In that time, we’ve seen a number of organizations that need a timesheet which will serve multiple purposes. TimeControl was designed to handle the needs of both Project Management and Finance at the same time."

Some of the clients who have already adopted TimeControl to work with Primavera's systems include the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport, Koch Industries, Motorola, Organon, Acergy and, Lockerbie and Hole.

Some of TimeControl's value-added benefits when linking with Primavera include: Multiple Rates per employee, simultaneous support for multiple versions of Primavera and matrix organization approvals with HMS Software's unique Matrix Approval Process for Labor Actuals™. This process allows both departmental supervisors to approve hours and costs with an unlimited number of approval levels and for project managers to be able to verify and if required, redistribute accepted hours before they are transferred back to Primavera.

For more information about TimeControl and how it links to Primavera, visit the TimeControl website at www.timecontrol.com/solutions/primavera.

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About HMS Software
Based in Montreal, Canada with offices in Toronto, HMS Software has been a leading provider of project management and enterprise timesheet systems since 1984. HMS Software's first customized timesheet application was written in 1984. With the launch of TimeControl as a commercial application in 1994, HMS Software began servicing clients worldwide. HMS Software's client list reads like a who's who of business. It includes Acergy, Alcan, CAE Electronics, EDS, Ericsson, General Motors, IBM, Dofasco Steel, Mercury Marine, Motorola, SAAB, Volvo-Novabus, Weyerhaeuser and hundreds of others. For more information about HMS Software, visit their website at www.hmssoftware.ca.

About Primavera
Primavera is a software company whose focus is to help organizations assign key resources to top priority projects, make it easy for people to collaborate, and deliver improved results. Primavera solutions are used by consulting firms and service organizations to maximize resource utilization, minimize costs, deliver on customer commitments, and manage multiple projects. Primavera solutions enable companies, including some of the world’s leading service organizations, to create a consistent methodology for global service delivery. For more information, visit www.primavera.com.

About TimeControl
TimeControl was originally released in 1994. It was immediately successful in the project management sector and today is recognized not only as a project management solution, but also as an enterprise timesheet solution in use by companies worldwide. TimeControl is designed to serve the needs of both Finance and Project Management simultaneously. It includes features such as flexible user structures to allow for multiple levels of timesheet authorization and an open data architecture, which makes the product ideally suited for integration with existing data systems in any organization. TimeControl’s flexibility allows it to be deployed for use as a time and attendance, time and billing, project time and flex-time system. TimeControl has both a Web and Windows interface. For more information about TimeControl, visit www.timecontrol.com.

HMS has representatives or distributors in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, the UK, and the U.S.

HMS Software
1000 bou. St-Jean, Suite 200
Pointe Claire, QC H9R 5P1
Contact: Julie Benard
jbenard@hmssoftware.ca
Tel: +1(514) 695-8122
www.hmssoftware.ca
www.timecontrol.com